swearing-school

Updated: June 30, 2026

Sometimes he read a line or two aloud, sometimes he overlooked several sentences, and went on to another part of the long narrative now growling out angry comments on what he was reading; and now dashing down the paper impatiently on his knees, with fierce outbursts of oaths, which he had picked up in the terrible swearing-school of the Californian gold mines.

Wilkie Collins - Hide and Seek